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The Faraway Nearby

By: Rebecca Solnit
Narrated by: Rebecca Solnit
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Summary

Gifts come in many guises. One summer, Rebecca Solnit was bequeathed three boxes of ripening apricots, which lay, mountainous, on her bedroom floor - a windfall, a riddle, an emergency to be dealt with. The fruit came from a neglected tree that her mother, gradually succumbing to memory loss, could no longer tend to. From this unexpected inheritance came stories spun like those of Scheherazade, who used her gifts as a storyteller to change her fate and her listener's heart.

As she looks back on the year of apricots and emergencies, Solnit weaves her own story into fairytales and the lives of others - the Marquis de Sade, Mary Shelley and Ernesto 'Che' Guevara. She tells of unexpected invitations and adventures, from a library of water in Iceland to the depths of the Grand Canyon. She tells of doctors and explorers, monsters and moths. She tells of warmth and coldness, of making art and re-making the self.
©2014 Rebecca Solnit (P)2015 Audible Studios
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Different .. in a good way

At first I wasn't sure about the narration style but it wouldn't be the same without Rebecca reading it. I like the breadth and depth of her interests and her concise way of talking. She is reflective and self aware and clearly affected by her relationship with her mother as we all must be.

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